due to the guitarist opening an insta account for our band i now have to maintain thataccount on this absolute hellscape of a platform.
being a long time fedinaut i will ditch it asap. we have both videos and photos to promote a band. i guess pixelfed is kind of a replacement for that? or is masto the real deal? which instances are good for alt music/bands?
All Pixelfed content is discoverable and followable up on Mastodon and has the benefit of allowing more attachments per post than Mastodon. So I would think for OPs use case of pushing media-focused content, without really needing the account to consume other peoples’ content, Pixelfed is a decent choice.
can i post videos to pixelfed, though?
and do i need a separate account if i chose to post for example text-only?
Video yes. Text-only no, you would need an account on another platform for that.
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106617110297151132
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3153
You could post a picture of text (with ALT text) from Pixelfed, though.